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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-3298-1
EAN 9781473632981
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were born within a single ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-0729-6
EAN 9781408707296
During the reign of Charles II, London was a city in flux. After years of civil war and political turmoil, England's capital became the centre for major advances in the sciences, the theatre, architecture, trade and ship-building that paved the way for the creation of the British Empire. At the heart of this activity was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-297-86690-9
EAN 9780297866909
During the course of the seventeenth century nearly 400,000 people left Britain for the Americas, most of them from England. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. There was little hope of returning to see the friends and family who stayed behind.Why did so many go? A significant number went ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21936-4
EAN 9780300219364
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities-revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, and regicides-that befell the mid-seventeenth-century world and wiped out as much as one-third of the global population, and reveals ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198390-5
EAN 9780141983905
'Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously different one' Literary ReviewBritain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in Europe's history.It has invaded ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1032 páginas
PVP: 30,36 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17565-2
EAN 9780691175652
Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a central protagonist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6035-6
EAN 9781445660356
The Wars of the Roses call to mind bloody battles, treachery and deceit, and a cast of characters known to us through fact and fiction: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard III, Warwick the Kingmaker, the Princes in the Tower, Henry Tudor. But the whole era also creates a level of bewilderment among even keen readers. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-324-9
EAN 9781631493249
Widely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America's seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only "mastered that scholarship" but has now rendered it in "an original way, and deepened ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-911184-04-1
EAN 9781911184041
The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans who landed on the Mayflower, and went on to build the most powerful nation on earth.This is the story of the passengers aboard its sister ship, the Seaflower, who in 1630, founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called ...
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Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. To start with England was hardly involved and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened. Stephen Alford's evocative, original and fascinating new ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958694-4
EAN 9780099586944
'Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing than the career of Alessandro de' Medici' (Hilary Mantel). In The Black Prince of Florence, a dramatic tale of assassination, spies and betrayal, the first retelling of Alessandro's life in two-hundred years opens a window onto the opulent, cut-throat world of Renaissance Italy. The year is 1531. After ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-6764-8
EAN 9781408867648
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. When Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as the Young Pretender, sailed from France to Scotland in July 1745, and with only a handful of supporters to claim the throne for his exiled father, few people within Britain were alarmed. But after he raised the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 28,40 €
ISBN 978-0-00-746503-3
EAN 9780007465033
On the 500th anniversary of Luther's rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk. Today, it includes a billion people across the globe. The upheaval Martin Luther triggered inspired one of the most creative and destructive movements in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97226-1
EAN 9780674972261
When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas. Traders were joined by ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars from Portugal, England, Holland, France, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-3604-7
EAN 9781469636047
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G.Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s.Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 9,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-879296-3
EAN 9780198792963
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197867-3
EAN 9780141978673
In 1570, after numerous plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning not only of the well-known identification of England with heroic Protestantism, but - which is almost entirely neglected by historians - of an English alignment with Islamic powers, and of cultural, economic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-707-4
EAN 9781846147074
One needs to be a fox to recognize snares, and a lion to frighten the wolves Niccolo Machiavelli lived in a fiercely competitive world, one where brute wealth, brazen liars and ruthless self-promoters seemed to carry off all the prizes; where the wealthy elite grew richer at the expense of their fellow citizens. In times ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-7002-0
EAN 9781408870020
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-2354-5
EAN 9781473623545
1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph.Based on ...
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